one-third. our burglaries are down, and we know as the mayor stated that our auto burglaries are down, and we will not rest on our laurels. those of us that have been in this business know that we have more work to do. now the mayor has outlined some steps that we have already taken, but i want to put some context to what that means in terms of the drop in auto burglaries. we're talking about 17% for the first three months of the year. that's over 1,000 less victims, 1,000 crimes that we believe were prevented. doubling our foot patrols, we know that especially hads deter crimes, and these officers standing behind me are some of the best in what they do. we've reallocated resources towards our property crimes. last week, those investigators put together a spring of investigations that led to the

arrest of several serial burglars in our city and the region. i want to go back to something that the mayor said and something that you'll hear me say over and over again. when we talk about crime and particularly auto burglaries, prevention is the key. prevention is the key. we're asking people not to make themselves easy prey. make no mistake, we're not blaming people for being victimized. that is not what we're trying to do here. this is about doing everything possible to keep your property safe and to avoid being an easy target for somebody who's willing to take your belongings. the park smart message isn't just a reminder to drivers, it's a reminder to those that want to prey on others that we still have police officers that will make arrests. we still have undercover plain clothes officers doing

surveillance. we still have a district attorney that are going to charge those crimes. we still have prisons, and we still have jails. that is a a part of law enforcement that will never go away, but we want to turn the tide a little bit because those things are very important, and we will continue to do them, but we have to put more emphasis on prevention. we talked about the fingerprinting, and the mayor mentioned this. you know, we've had a lot of good arrests, and we know we need to increase our fingerprinting capabilities, so as the mayor said, we're training 36 personnel to do just that. we're encouraging people if they do have an auto burglary, go get your car fingerprinted. we need to get those fingerprints in our databases so we can help solve some of these crimes. in addition to that, with the mayor's leadership and guidance, we hope to have more officers in the field. we encourage the public, if you see something, say something.

we encourage you to call us when you see these type of crimes or any type of crimes being committed. together, we will continue to make this city safer for everyone. again, i'd like to thank mayor mark farrell for his support and his leadership on this issue. we could not do this without strong leadership, and that's what it's going to take is leadership from all of us to turn the tide on these crimes and make our city safer. thank you. [applause]. >> and with that, i'd like to introduce actually one of the two people that helped create the park smart slowigan, and that's commander david lozar. >> well, i want to begin by thanking our mayor, mark farrell, and our chief david scott. a little history about park smart. back in 2014, i served as the captain of central station, paying very close attention to

all the auto burglaries that are that were taking place, and as the chief has mentioned, arresting those responsible is a primary duty of ours, but what's equally or more important is prevention, the message that those that come to our city, who enjoy our city, the mer chapters and the residents and the visitors to simply keep their car empty. it was back then, supervisor mark farrell, district two, we worked together on putting ambassadors up on lombard street, and they had a goal of messages all the visitors coming through about leaving their cars empty. i'm sure mark farrell, you remember when we worked on that, and thanks to you, we got the ambassadors up on lombard street educating everyone. but i went to my police advisory board at central station about needing their help, and the community is very important in education and crime prevention messages. and i went to troy campbell who's the executive director of

the fisherman's wharf district. and i said troy, we have to get a message that catches people's attention as they come through. we thought about park smart, and so locally here, we put up our signs, letting visitors know they need to keep their cars empty while visiting san francisco. we're excited today because our mayor and our chief have decided to roll this out citywide, and inviting the marketing person -- marketing people that definitely contributed, the nice marketing firm, as you see the bus behind us. we're taking it to a whole new level in 2018. so we're grateful, we're grateful for all of our community partners. we're grateful that we're able to get the message out on crime prevention, and as we work on

getting the message out of crime prevention, you can see the results that are taking place. with that we'd like to invite up our community partner, the executive director troy campbell, who was behind this from the beginning, to say a few words. thank you very much. [applause]. >> good morning. so again, another round of thank yous, but thank you, mayor farrell, chief scott, commander lozar for making this a public service announcement. i would also like to thampg the d.a.'s office because we were awarded a neighborhood justice fund grant last year that helped us produce more of those materials. when park smart message was skeeved by the central station police community advisory board, it relied on cid, dic's, community organizations, all to put up the money to produce these materials and share them in their respective areas, however the goal was always to get this to be a citywide initiative and have it

proliverate across the city. so for me, this is a great day. this psa is something that everyone can help do to help curb this issue. fisherman's wharf alone, we had 45,000 people a day that we're turning over, so just handing outpost cards with this message is not sustainable, so having it in static locations on signs, on meters, on buses, i think is going to do a lot in helping get this message out. will it solve this problem? no. it's one cog in the machine with the d.a.'s office, with the mayor's office, with the police department to help curb this problem. and i just want to ask everyone out there listening to me, to make it part of your vernacular. when you're talking to visitors, friends, anyone you run into at a cafe, the importance of this he is a message. this is something that people

need to know, to park smart. thanks. [applause]. >> so thank you, troy, for that and again for all of your leadership here, and thank you all for being here. we're wrapping up right now this part of the press conference. what i want to do is direct everyone. commander lozar is going to lead everyone there on a fingerprint demoto see what we're doing, so if you have any suhr. >> i'd like to announce that

you are back in session and you still have a quorum. >> call item nine. [agenda item read]. >> do i have a motion for nondisclosure. >> i move not to disclose. >> second. >> the motion passes. >> next item, please. >> motion to adjourn. >> i move to adjourn. >> and i move to adjourn as i said at the start of our session on behalf of the police commission, the men and women of the san francisco police department, we send our condolences to chris martinez, her wife and her family, and all the officers who served in the san francisco police department.

may she be in our thoughts and prayers, and god bless. >> all in favor? >> we're adjourned.

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for me i think district eight is different than other districts because of the castro, right? that is really the birth place of lgbtq civil rights movement in san francisco. it's historic for that reason. it's a great district because it's very diverse. you have booming night life in the castro, a lot of families, we have an amazing array of parks, rock climbing wall in glen canyon is super cool. it was the first facility with a rock climbing wall. the book stores are treasures, charlie's corner is unique. >> charlie's corner is a children's book store but so much more, community space where care takers and children come together over storytelling,

books, it's a gathering center. i am charlotte and we are at charlie's corner on the corner of castro and 24th. the type of books we carry at charlie's corner range from prenatal to young adult, 18. we have musical books, art books, all built around children of course. history, nonfiction, we have a wonderful picture book section. >> i love going to charlie's corner, number one, because you can find a whole range of books. my kid loves to read books. >> i always envisioned a space like this, surrounded by children's books and storytelling. we offer storytelling four times a day. we do curate well, we do a lot

of time reading, researching, beyond the story time, it's going back to picking out a book, helping someone find the perfect book, unwrapping it and sending it off. there are people from all over the world and that's what i find so exciting. you see that every day in our story times. it's literally a melting pot. >> more and more families come into the district, whether it's the castro, strollers every where in the valley and tons and tons of kids in glen park now, with the canyon and a great library. >> i describe it as this village, i tell people i live in a town but i work in a village. >> one thing i really think is great about this district, it's a safe district, it's a clean district, it's great for kids, it's great for families and has a bit of wild life in it, too.

>> i look forward to watching these kids in this neighborhood grow up and new kids come in and meeting new people from all over the world because that's what we're all about. ♪ ♪ - >> tenderloin is unique neighborhood where geographically place in downtown san francisco and on every street corner have liquor store in the corner it stores pretty much every single block has a liquor store but there are impoverishes grocery stores i'm the co-coordinated of the healthy corner store collaboration close to 35 hundred residents 4 thousand are children the medium is about

$23,000 a year so a low income neighborhood many new immigrants and many people on fixed incomes residents have it travel outside of their neighborhood to assess fruits and vegetables it can be come senator for seniors and hard to travel get on a bus to get an apple or a pear or like tomatoes to fit into their meals my my name is ryan the co-coordinate for the tenderloin healthy store he coalition we work in the neighborhood trying to support small businesses and improving access to healthy produce in the tenderloin that is one of the most neighborhoods that didn't have access to a

full service grocery store and we california together out of the meeting held in 2012 through the major development center the survey with the corners stores many stores do have access and some are bad quality and an overwhelming support from community members wanting to utilities the service spas we decided to work with the small businesses as their role within the community and bringing more fresh produce produce cerebrothe neighborhood their compassionate about creating a healthy environment when we get into the work they rise up to leadership. >> the different stores and assessment and trying to get them to understand the value of having healthy foods at a

reasonable price you can offer people fruits and vegetables and healthy produce they can't afford it not going to be able to allow it so that's why i want to get involved and we just make sure that there are alternatives to people can come into a store and not just see cookies and candies and potting chips and that kind of thing hi, i'm cindy the director of the a preif you believe program it is so important about healthy retail in the low income community is how it brings that health and hope to the communities i worked in the tenderloin for 20 years the difference you walk out the door and there is a bright new list of fresh fruits and vegetables some place you

know is safe and welcoming it makes. >> huge difference to the whole environment of the community what so important about retail environments in those neighborhoods it that sense of dignity and community safe way. >> this is why it is important for the neighborhood we have families that needs healthy have a lot of families that live up here most of them fruits and vegetables so that's good as far been doing good. >> now that i had this this is really great for me, i, go and get fresh fruits and vegetables it is healthy

being a diabetic you're not supposed to get carbons but getting extra food a all carbons not eating a lot of vegetables was bringing up my whether or not pressure once i got on the program everybody o everything i lost weight and my blood pressure came down helped in so many different ways the most important piece to me when we start seeing the business owners engagement and their participation in the program but how proud to speak that is the most moving piece of this program yes economic and social benefits and so forth but the personal pride business

owners talk about in the program is interesting and regarding starting to understand how they're part of the larger fabric of the community and this is just not the corner store they have influence over their community. >> it is an owner of this in the department of interior i see the great impact usually that is like people having especially with a small family think liquor store sells alcohol traditional alcohol but when they see this their vision is changed it is a small grocery store for them so they more options not just beer and wine but healthy options good for the business and good

for the community i wish to have more >> good morning. oh, my god, what a day. what a day to be at the port, what a day to be outside. it's so beautiful chl the sun is out. happy earth month. i am debbie rafell. i am the director of the department of 1r50ir789, and this is the most fabulous and gorgeous place to be at this moment in time. it's very fitting to be at the waterfront, of course, during earth month. who needs a reminder of the poshs of protecting our environment and the importance of protecting this planet. we're here today to announce another step forward in our environmental stewardship

journey. our jurny towards taking bold climate actions, to preserve this planet for us and for future generations. clearly -- and there's the nice sound. clearly, to address our climate needs, we're going to have to tackle the transportation sector. in san francisco the transportation sector accounts for about 50% of our emissions, a huge part. this is a city that believes in leading by example, and our transit fleet is one of the cleanest in the nation, and part of that cleanliness, if you will, has to do with fuel switching, where we're getting off of diesel, dirty diesel, and replacing it with renewable fuels. we are electrifying when we can, and we're using renewable fuels when the technology hasn't quite caught up with us

yet to get off of dues will and nonrenewable fuels. this allows us to take action using existing equipment and existing technology. the san francisco department of environment, the mayor's office, the port and all of our community stakeholders with us today ahave been working hard o introduce renewable fuels into this new form of transportation. so i'm pleased to introduce to you today mayor mr. mark farrell who will be making the announcement that we are all looking forward to listen to. so mayor farrell. >> thank you. debbie. it's good to be here, and love the interaction that we're

seeing on our waterfront behind us. so thanks to the introduction, debbie, and i want to thank everyone for coming out today for this announcement. you know we're all here today because we care very deeply about our city of san francisco, and we care deeply about our environment in the city of san francisco, and i know we all have concerns about the federal leadership or lack of federal leadership on environmental issues right now coming out of washington, d.c. the head of our epa seems to be more concerned about flying first-class and the cole industry than pushing environmental policies forward that will have a positive impact if our communities. and while they continue to stick their heads in the sand in terms of climate change in washington, d.c., san francisco is once again stepping forward as a leader in our country for the environment. thanks to our innovatetive practices here in our city, we are on our way to meeting our goal of 50% renewable power goal by 2020 and 100% by 2050.

in san francisco, we are proving our dpost wropg every single day. we have reduced greenhouse gases by 20%. at the same time our population has grown by 19%, and our gdp has grown by 75% in the city of san francisco. we are proving washington, d.c., we are proving the skeptics wrong. i am here to say that as mayor of the city of san francisco that i am convinced that not only the san francisco but our korld with coexist by having strong environmental policies and a strong economy at the same time. they go together. this is called climate leadership. this is what san francisco is all about, and today we are excited to announce the next step in that journey as the city of san francisco. so today we are announcing the transition of the san francisco bay area water fleet to 100%

renewable diesel. we are taking this bold step, and when we do, we will become the first region in the entire country to achieve this goal. let me repeat that. once again in the city of san francisco, we will be the first in the country to lead on the environment. it will help reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by another 60% on the water and cutback on the diesel pollutants that affect our air. four of the bay areas ferry providers will be making the switch to diesel here in 2018 and 2019, including our fire department, which will make the transition this year in the city of san francisco. i do want to thank all the ferry providers for joining with the city of san francisco to make this happen. this does not happen alone. it takes strong partnerships. i want to thank our fire department in particular, chief hayes-white and all the leaders that are here today on this issue. i want to thank debbie with the department of the environment,

elaine forbes, and her staff at the port. i want to give great thampgz to our former mayor, ed lee, who started this conversation years ago. tyrone chiu, who i know he's been at the forefront of this issue for a long time. we're going to be the first in the nation to make this change, but we will not be the last. this is just the beginning, and san francisco once again is stepping forward as a leader in the country on the environment, and that's something we all should be very, very proud of it. our city deserves it, our country deserves it, and our world deserves it. thanks, everyone. >> wow, thank you, mayor farrell. our country deserves it, our city deserves it, our planet deserves it, our world deserves it, indeed. so transitioning a water fleet demonstrates what's possible when public and private sectors work together.

and as the mayor said, this did not happen overnight or by accident. this transition happened because we put our heads together and collectively we problem solved, and we brainstormed, and we figured out what was the missing information, what do we need to have happen to make this change? because no one had done it before. we couldn't even look to europe as a model because we were the first. and i would like to recognize some of those leaders, those partners who made this possible from our regulatory agencies, the environmental protection agency, the california resources board, and the water emergency transportation authority, our local ferry and water transit operators, red-white fleet, blue and gold fleet, golden gate ferry, horn blower and alcatraz tours, to the marine manufacturers and mtu. they had to figure out, would this renewable product work in their ferries.

and so our own san francisco fire department, which has a fireboat fleet, and one of them is behind us, and hopefully we will be enjoying a demonstration of their prowess today. i'd also like to thank the leadership and cooperation of our commission on the environment. commissioner eddie ong is here with us today to encourage us on and to ensure that san francisco continues in a leadership moment. and of course, the real leader in all this, the mother of the leaders is our port director, elaine forbes. i get to say that as a woman. she leads with courage, she's a role model for all of us, and she's a resource for cities and ports all around the world. under her leadership, the port is an environmental champion, from shoreside power to 100% greenhouse gas energy

procurement, to solarizing buildings, elaine is fearless and determined, and this could not happen without her support, so let's welcome elaine forbes, port director. >> thank you so much, debbie, for that absolutely amazing introduction. i'm quite shy now about that, and thank you so much mayor farrell for your commitment to climate change and to our city's waterfront. hello, everyone and thank you for coming to our world renouned waterfront. this is a spectacular resource. the san francisco bay is so pristine and so defining for our city. and our ferry operator tenants, along with the city and the port are at the forefront of environmental stewardship. i'm very proud to say that. i'm speaking today on behalf of port staff and port commission. we have port commissioner lessee ka lessee -- leslie katz here. thank you for your leadership. since 2001, we have removed

300,000 square feet of dilapidated peers, improving the bay quality. we've cleaned up contaminated properties, and in every location, we have plans to open up the properties to san francisco and the region, further connecting people to the bay. we have wonderful new buildings that are lead certified and we have a building at herron's head park. we've cut emissions by more than half. we privacy row emissions hydropower to our cruise ship at pier 27 and to our large government and commercial ship at pier 70. and with this announcement today, we are a making our air and water healthier for everyone. and i want to talk about how this initiative started. mayor farrell mentioned our y

late mayor lee. back in july 2016, we toured our mayor for the late mission bay ferry landing. on that boat ride, mayor lee made the connection, hmm, if city owned industrial equipment and our fleet can transfer to renewable diesel, could the ferries, too? he had a big vision for this waterfront and for growth in our water transportation and linked this vision to environmental stewardship. his point person, tyrone viewed got on the job, teamed up with my key person, rich furman, and teamed up with important staff from the department. and ferry operators stepped up and agreed to make this change. so now with their partnership, we will have cleaner air for everyone in san francisco. and we are becoming alternative fuels leaders for ferries in

san francisco at the exact time that we're expanding our ridership. it's such a great partnership to see more people on the bay and more people in ferries and knowing that's true ae going to be cleaner. we are so graceful to our late mayor for his call to action and for city staff and ferry operators who saw his vision through. and it will not stop here. we will be advancing other environmental initiatives, and we will be rebuilding this harbor to keep it safe, environmentally secure and keep it great for future generations. this is a beautiful waterfront, and we aim to keep it that way. thank you all for coming. [applause]. >> thank you, elaine and thank you inform poto port commissio port staff who have been such champions of this. so as elaine said, we can't do this alone. we might have an idea, we might

see a possibility, a window of opportunity, but we need the ferry operators to step up. and the person behind me was incredible. he said yes, we will try this, yes, we will do this, and i will make sure it happens. we are incredibly lucky to have such forward thinking, committed operators here in san francisco. the water fleet exemplifies that can do of why not? why not here? whatever they can do to push the envelope to make ferry ridership part of the equation to heal the planet. so let us well come our champion, tom escher, to talk for a moment.

[applause]. >> thank you very much. i'm not sure who you were talking about. one of the things i don't believe in is fake news, so mr. mayor, i have to say that the fleet has been using renewable fuel since last year, and there's been no operational problems. this is another step for the red-white fleet, there is another one to our zero pollution. and the next step is for us in august of this year, we will have the anhydra, which is an electric ferry boat coming here. she will be here in august. and in 2019, she's going to be completely electric, no pollution on the boat, completely electric. in 2020, we're going to have a -- a hydrogen fuel cell boat, which is here. zero pollution. now all these things i'm

talking about, you can buy on-line at amazon, so all we're doing is putting the pieces together, and because we believe in zero pollution. our board has said we have to be zero pollution by 2025 for all of our boats, and we will make that, if not sooner. why are we doing this, you're going to ask. all of this is proven technology. there's nothing new here. we're like a chef, we're making a stew. all of this is going to give us a reasonable business return. and the last most important, nobody in the audience is going to be affected here. this is your children, your grandchildren. this is what we're looking for. we can't kick the can down the road anymore when you can buy all this stuff on-line at amazon. it is insanity. so from a point of view, i'd like to thank the mayor, mayor lee started this. we have a new mayor now.

he's continuing it. the department of environment, the port of san francisco, elaine forbes, mike martin, rich bierman, and all sorts of other people who i haven't mentioned. nesti is the provider of the renewable fuel who's great, and also aaron peskin, our supervisor. one last comment i'd like to make is our vessel the xalaphus is there, and yif you don't knw what that is, you should look it up. thank you very much. >> i have no idea what xalaphus means, so that's my homework. wow. thank you, tom, and i think what you heard there is that pioneering spirit, that why not. that's why you keep things in notebooks. all right. so tom talked about the long

version, getting to zero emissions boats and ferries. just with this one action of moving towards renewable decembering, from traditional diesel from dinosaur bones, we're going to be able to reduce 22,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases. this is a significant action that can be today. i would like to encourage everyone, the next time you are going to oakland or alameda or coming into the city, ride in one of our wonderful ferries. you'll get the best view of the bay, the best view of our city, and you'll be doing it knowing that you're healing the planet at the same time. i want to close by sharing one of my favorite talking points, which is that i believe that the world is one by those who show up, and that every person out there today is showing up to heal the planet and showing up to make a difference, and this is done when government

works with the private sector in close partnership. my team, suzanne lucen and zach thompson, as well as rich berman and tyrone chiu who lead with their hearts as well as their mind dos. it's because of all of you that we're all able to do this together. so with that, i am hopeful that behind me will be something spectacular and worth looking at besides -- what is it? xaluphus. >> it's called the xaluphus, and if you look at the spelling, you can google it and then tell me what it means. >> that's my homework, the xaluphus. oh, there we go, soon to be

operated on renewable diesel, the fireboat. it's right now -- excuse me. we don't want fake news. right now, at this moment, the fire department has adopted renewable diesel, and that boat is leading the world right now in environmental stewardship. thank you, fire department. [applause]. . >> the san francisco carbon fund was started in 2009. it's basically legislation that was passed by the board of supervisors and the mayor's office for the city of san francisco. they passed legislation that said okay, 13% of the cost of the city air travel is going to go into a fund and we're going

to use the money in that fund to do local projects that are going to mitigate and sequester greenhouse gas emission. the grants that we're giving, they're anywhere from 15,000 to, say, $80,000 for a two year grant. i'm shawn rosenmoss. i'm the development of community partnerships and carbon fund for the san francisco department of environment. we have an advisory committee that meets once or twice a year to talk about, okay, what are we going to fund? because we want to look at things like equity and innovative projects. >> i heard about the carbon fund because i used to work for the department of environment. i'm a school education team.

my name is marcus major. i'm a founding member of climate action now. we started in 2011. our main goal it to remove carbon in the public right-of-way on sidewalks to build educational gardens that teach people with climate change. >> if it's a greening grant, 75% of the grant has to go for greening. it has to go for planting trees, it has to go for greening up the pavement, because again, this is about permanent carbon savings. >> the dinosaur vegetable gardens was chosen because the garden was covered in is afault since 1932. it was the seed funding for this whole project. the whole garden,ible was about 84,000 square feet, and our project, we removed 3,126

square feet of cement. >> we usually issue a greening rft every other year, and that's for projects that are going to dig up pavement, plant trees, community garden, school garden. >> we were awarded $43,000 for this project. the produce that's grown here is consumed all right at large by the school community. in this garden we're growing all kinds of organic vegetables from lettuce, and artichokes. we'll be planting apples and loquats, all kinds of great fruit and veggies. >> the first project was the dipatch biodiesel producing facility. the reason for that is a lot of people in san francisco have diesel cars that they were operating on biodiesel, and they were having to go over to

berkeley. we kind of the dog batch preferentials in the difference between diesel and biodiesel. one of the gardens i love is the pomeroy rec center. >> pomeroy has its roots back to 1952. my name is david, and i'm the chamber and ceo of the pomeroy rehabilitation and recreation center. we were a center for people with intellectual and development cal disabilities in san francisco san francisco. we also have a program for individuals that have acquired brain injury or traumatic brain injury, and we also have one of the larger after school programs for children with special needs that serves the public school system. the sf carbon fund for us has

been the launching pad for an entire program here at the pomeroy center. we received about $15,000. the money was really designed to help us improve our garden by buying plants and material and also some infrastructure like a drip system for plants. we have wine barrels that we repurposed to collect rain water. we actually had removed over 1,000 square feet of concrete so that we could expand the garden. this is where our participants, they come to learn about gardening. they learn about our work in the greenhouse. we have plants that we actually harvest, and eggs from our chickens that we take up and use in cooking classes so that our participants learn as much as anybody else where food comes from.

we have two kitchens here at the pomeroy center. one is more of a commercial kitchen and one is more setup like a home kitchen would be, and in the home kitchen, we do a lot of cooking classes, how to make lasagna, how to comsome eggs, so this grant that we received has tremendous value, not only for our center, for our participants, but the entire community. >> the thing about climate, climate overlaps with everything, and so when we start looking at how we're going to solve climate programs, we solve a lot of other problems, too. this is a radical project, and to be a part of it has been a real honor and a privilege to work with those administrators with the sf carbon fund at the department of environment. >> san francisco carbon grant to -- for us, opened the door to a new -- a new world that we didn't really have before; that

the result is this beautiful garden. >> when you look at the community gardens we planted in schools and in neighborhoods, how many thousands of people now have a fabulous place to walk around and feel safe going outside and are growing their own food. that's a huge impact, and we're just going to keep rolling that out and keep rolling that food just about expensive eat but food for everyone and there's organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it

assessable to everyone. more and more as follows are are becoming interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from we'll look at 3 programs talking ushering agricultural and garden to new heights. so what exactly it, your honor agricultural >> it the growing food or flowers within city limits traditionally we've been referring to communities gardener that is a raised bed over and over upper argument has a more a farming way of farming. >> so tell me 0 what's growing

in this garden. >> a really at all plant. in the one of the rare places, you know, people have access to green space 24 is one of the places to grow things like the purple floor. it is sort of recognizing that the more diversity in given space the better not to just have one thing by everything supported each another >> it provides the community with an opportunity to get their hands dirty and reach 0 out and congressmen with the community in ways they might have not otherwise to engage with one other. >> now the dpw urban planning program so see how the garden

community. >> so i grew up on a farm in air force base we picked the foods open the trees and share with other families and as i drive around san francisco i see any trees with apples or mrumdz and lemon trees i can see the food going to waste and brought that idea back to the department many of the trees where the fruit would go to waste we origin or crop and pick other fruits and delivery this to food banks or shelters to people who need them. >> i'm here with nang wong hello nang. >> hello. >> i need to understand house this gleaning work. >> we come and harvest like for

example, we'll come over here this is the lemon and plug it like this. >> (laughter). >> made that good, good and ease. >> the trick is how not to hurt the branches. >> like the thing. >> i'm so excited about this. the people are so passionate about where the food goes to the private property owners give us the food they're happy that no of a t is going to waste >> oh. thank you. thank you. again job aura natural

>> (laughter). >> from backyards to back lots let's take a look at the food and community bonding at the free farm. >> my idea was to start growing food and giving it away. and getting my neighbors to who had space and having a kind of event that brings people together not to run our food program this time around but to share the wealth of the abundance of our welfare. we were all divorce and as part of our philosophy of working together and working together. >> what's the most rewarding aspect of volunteering for the free farm stand. >> well, we could is a generalic satisfaction but

something about giving food away it's giving something i brought that in and sort it and gave it to you it's primitive to be able to give something some basically to someone else. >> now serving number to 49 come on down. >> we have the capability of producing this food and in san francisco you can grow food all year round so the idea we're capable of prougdz food in our own backyards we're here to demonstrate an bans of food and i think that giving it away for free we show individuals it in have to be a comedy. >> we build time together and it's the strength of any ideas

of the connections we'll turn that connection and the more connections you make no mistake about it the more you can have a stronger power and not have to rely on money that's the people power. >> in this episode we've seen the urban farms and gardens provide more in fruits and vegetation people can have the special produce available it can be a place to give back by donating food to others and teach our children the connection to the earth and environment it's truly